Everyone is welcome to our Physics colloquia, which take place on Wednesdays at 3:20pm in ABB-102. Refreshments are served
beforehand in ABB-273. Suggestions for speakers can be sent to the colloquium chair (Cecile Fradin:
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September 12, 2012 3:20 pm Connecting the Dots: Transition Pathways Between Ordered Phases of Block Copolymers
Dr. An-Chang Shi
, McMaster University

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September 19, 2012 3:20 pm Quantum Control using Nano-Earthquakes
Dr. James Stotz
, Queen's University

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September 26, 2012 3:20 pm Imaging Supermassive Black holes on Horizon Scales
Dr. Avery Broderick
, University of Waterloo

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October 3, 2012 3:20 pm Topological order & long-range entanglements: A totally new kind of quantum materials and an unification of light and electrons
Dr. Xiao-Gang Wen
, Massachuasetts Institute of Technology

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October 10, 2012 3:20 pm A Survey of Molecular Gas in Luminous Sub-millimetre Galaxies
Dr. Scott Chapman
, Dalhousie University

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October 17, 2012 3:20 pm The Discovery of a Higgs-like Particle
Dr. Pierre Savard
, University of Toronto

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October 24, 2012 3:20 pm Multimodal Imaging/Spectroscopy Approaches for Studying Ceramide-induced Reorganization of Lipid Membranes
Dr. Linda Johnston
, NRC

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October 31, 2012 3:20 pm Quantum Signatures of Chaos
Dr. Shohini Ghose
, Wilfrid Laurier University

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November 7, 2012 3:20 pm How the Milky Ways ticks: comprehending complexity in the interstellar medium, from ethereal wisps to dense structures at the onset of star formation (part I!)
Dr. Peter Martin
, University of Toronto

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November 14, 2012 3:20 pm Understanding the Universe using rare isotopes
Dr. Reiner Kruecken
, TRIUMF/UBC

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November 21, 2012 3:20 pm Shedding infrared light on high-Tc superconductivity
Dr. Dimtri Basov
, University of California, San Diego

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November 28, 2012 3:20 pm Biophysics of Lipid Bilayer and Protein Interaction Modulated by Curvature
Dr. Tobias Baumgart
, University of Pennsylvania

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December 5, 2012 3:20 pm Proteins that Lead to Topological Transitions in Membranes
Dr. Gerard Wong
, California NanoSystems Institute - UCLA

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January 9, 2013 3:20 pm Inflation, or What?
Dr. William Kinney, University of Buffalo
, University of Buffalo

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January 16, 2013 3:20 pm Dust-obscured Activity in High Redshift Galaxies
Dr. Alexandra Pope
, University of Massachusetts

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January 23, 2013 3:20 pm Quantum Optomechanics: A Mechanical Platform for Quantum Information and Quantum Foundations
Dr. Marcus Aspelmeyer, University of Vienna
, University of Vienna

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January 30, 2013 3:20 pm Diffusion of Transmembrane Proteins and Peptides Embedded in Lipid Bilayers
Dr. Nicolas Taulier
, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie

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February 6, 2013 3:20 pm The Life Cycle of Star Clusters
Dr. Rupali Chandar, University of Toledo
, University of Toledo

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February 13, 2013 3:20 pm Why We Must Teach Using Student-Student Interaction.
Dr. Alan Slavin, Trent University
, Trent University

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February 27, 2013 3:20 pm Studying Galaxies in the Early Universe with Innovative Astronomical Instrumentation
Dr. Shelly Wright, Dunlap Institute
, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics

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March 4, 2013 4:30 pm The Higgs Particle…and so what?
Dr. Francois Corriveau
, McGill University

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March 6, 2013 3:20 pm Is the Electron Round?
Dr. Ed Hinds, Imperial College London
, Imperial College London

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March 13, 2013 3:20 pm Tunable Topological States in Graphene and Other Dirac Materials
Dr. Dmitry Abanin, Princeton University
, Princeton University

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March 27, 2013 3:20 pm Babylonian Astronomy: The Birth of Predictive Science
Dr. John Steele, Brown University
, Brown University

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April 3, 2013 3:20 pm An Example of a Quantum Anomaly in Physics of Cold Atomic Gases
Dr. Maxim Olchanyi, Univ of Massachusetts
, University of Massachusetts at Boston

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April 10, 2013 3:20 pm 'Does the chemical bond exist?
Dr. David Brown, McMaster University
, McMaster University

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April 16, 2013 2:30 pm Molecular mechanisms of amyloid fibril formation and toxicity in relation to Alzheimer’s disease.
Dr. Zoya Leonekno
, University of Waterloo

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April 17, 2013 3:20 pm Results from the Planck CMB Satellite
Dr. Kendrick Smith, Princeton University

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April 19, 2013 3:30 pm Equation Of State Of A 'Unitary' Fermionic Gas Of Ultracold Atoms
Dr. Rajat Bhaduri
, , Department of Physics & Astronomy, McMaster University

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April 24, 2013 3:20 pm Membrane Structure, Simulation and Scattering
Dr. John Katsaras
, Oakridge National Laboratory

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